RPS Effects Warp Drive Analog Delay

The RPS Effects Warp Drive is an effects pedal from RPS Effects, an analog delay designed to produce delayed repeats of a guitar signal using bucket brigade analog circuitry rather than digital processing¹. It sits within the broader family of Delay Pedals, a category that ranges from simple analog designs to complex digital units.

What it does

An analog delay records a short fragment of the incoming signal and plays it back repeatedly, with each repeat growing darker and quieter than the last. That character comes from the bucket brigade chips at the heart of the circuit, and it is the defining trait players look for in an analog delay. The Warp Drive Analog Delay is built on that design: Pedal of the Day describes it as a bucket brigade analog delay in pedal form¹.

Compared with a digital delay, which repeats the signal with its full bandwidth intact, a bucket brigade analog design lets the repeats lose highs each time around the loop. That is the difference players hear between the two families of Delay Pedals, and it is why the Warp Drive's circuit type matters more than any single control.

What reviewers said

Pedal of the Day reviewed the pedal in August 2018, covering its bucket brigade analog design and its control layout¹. Points the review addressed:

• The pedal's bucket brigade analog design¹
• Its control layout¹

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